iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 07/02/2025

the only people who benefit from this are child predators and i'd like dem officials to say so into a microphone

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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 07/02/2025

if you were ever looking for a reason to become radicalized

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Ryan Ragona @ragona.com · 27/01/2025

if ai agents end up being a notable part of global conflict in the future, there will _never_ be such a thing as too much compute, even just for inference. you have agi in a tiny model? cool. here’s 100gw of compute, make me a billion hackers and see what you can do about that power grid.

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Ryan Ragona @ragona.com · 19/01/2025

1. I love this guy, and god bless Canada. 2. The clearly involuntary “eh?” in the sentence — “The American people aren’t going to put up with it, and the Canadian people… EH, we will NEVER put up with it.” SO GOOD. 🍁🇨🇦 I’m nominating this for “Hardest ‘Eh’ of 2025” I don’t care that it’s January.

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Ryan Ragona @ragona.com · 19/01/2025

I think this might be my favorite thing I’ve read this year. inspiring tbh, makes a nerd want to build privacy preserving shit.

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Ryan Ragona @ragona.com · 12/01/2025

as an individual fqdn becomes more popular, I want the the dns resolution to get fuzzier. goigle.com I’m really sorry you’re google now.

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Ryan Ragona @ragona.com · 10/01/2025

been thinking about my queer friends and fam a lot this week. the inauguration, the hard right shift in the tech bubble. I have two moms and a trans dad. I grew up in the 80s in oregon, when there were aggressive anti-gay measures on the ballots. (me at portland pride with my moms in the 80s)

Picture of a small boy on his mother’s shoulders at a pride march in oregon in the late 80s. Everyone has hilarious curly hair, and there is a partially occluded protest sign demanding something regarding ceasing funding for racism.

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Ryan Ragona @ragona.com · 07/01/2025

I can hear the meeting: “it’s about giving users the ability to choose their content. we don’t want paternalism, these are informed adults.” subtext: “facism is so hot right now. we have to support that user base, or we’ll lose too many eyeballs. and god knows what the new administration will do.”

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Ryan Ragona @ragona.com · 05/01/2025

corporate spyware, used to breach government spyware. this is an example of a huge of “security investment” managing to be starkly, directly counterproductive at a massive scale. if this doesn’t make you wonder if maybe the surveillance itself is the problem, nothing will.

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Ryan Ragona @ragona.com · 04/01/2025

this frame is compelling. when a profession adds women, men value it less and stop participating. women are going to college in larger numbers — is that why young men aren’t? … men, I’m starting to think we shouldn’t make life choices mostly to avoid the spooky ghost of femininity.

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Ryan Ragona @ragona.com · 04/01/2025

I am super impressed with this book. It is an opinionated take on reducing music theory to its actual foundation, rather than a mishmash of hundreds of years of overlapping theory with 6 names for the same shit. Easily the most practical book on theory I’ve ever read.

Picture of the book The Science of Music from Allen Van Wert

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Ryan Ragona @ragona.com · 04/01/2025

4yo: “can knives cut through bones?” me: “nah not really” her: “… it would take a WHILE”

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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Guys, C-SPAN is momentarily in a state of lawless anarchy.

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Ryan Ragona @ragona.com · 03/01/2025

sweetwater customer service needs some kind of study, it’s remarkable. just had one of the most human chats I’ve had in a long time, simply talking about how their luthiers will setup a guitar. are they like.. making people feel safe at work or something? 😅 (shoutout to Levi M., a lovely human!)

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Ryan Ragona @ragona.com · 31/12/2024

My favorite photos are definitely of my kiddos this year, but this crow going to visit his buddy made me smile.

A photo taken showing the view of Puget Sound from Whidbey Island. A crow is landing on a balcony, where another crow sits. The mountains and additional islands are visible over the water, and it’s a cloudy day.

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Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

This Salt Typhoon stuff is insane. The entire FISA surveillance infrastructure has been completely owned by China and literally no part of our telecom infrastructure is safe to use without end-to-end encryption.

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Jason Fried @jasonfried.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

A passage from the Tao that’s frequently worth revisiting.

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Ryan Ragona @ragona.com · 24/12/2024

I just realized I am technically allowed to fret the A string with my thumb. no one can stop me… except maybe joint pain.

A guitarist’s left hand fretting a B flat major, fingered with thumb on the A string, and ring and pinky fingers smooshed across the 4th fret.

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Ryan Ragona @ragona.com · 14/12/2024

just tried asking o1 pro a music theory question and I think it did well! (it’s actually also one of the longest compute times I’ve seen out of it, which is interesting.) makes me want to play with having multimodal models analyze song audio from a music theory perspective.

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Ryan Ragona @ragona.com · 13/12/2024

this is such a good point I don’t think we hear enough of. when we paint undocumented immigrants as scary criminals who climbed a wall to get here, it dehumanizes the really boring (and bureaucratically terrifying) daily reality of overstaying a visa trying to find your feet in a new country.

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Ryan Ragona @ragona.com · 07/12/2024

my timeline of cryptographers has switched from its usual math and code chatter, now it’s mostly people panicking about the asiacrypt venue dress code that disallows *checks notes* tshirts 😱

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Ryan Ragona @ragona.com · 01/12/2024

foggy seattle morning. leica sl3 35mm f2 1/15th 100 iso.

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